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@Shadowman311 He’s not wrong, sacrifices like this are part of Pagan tradition, same as stuff like say lent is for the Christian one.
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@Witch_Hunter_Siegfired @Shadowman311 In Lent we deprive ourselves to give more time to God and conquer our passions/body. We are not physically sacrificing the steak or ham we would've ate on an alter or burning it to give to God. Even the traditional OT sacrifices were eaten by the priest so that they wouldn't be defiled by vermin.
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@BowsacNoodle @Shadowman311 I’d argue Pagan ones were in-part giving back to nature aswell as the Gods, that asides I make the comparison simply due to it not really being much “weirder“ in my mind.
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@Witch_Hunter_Siegfired @Shadowman311 I think practicing your religion should involve actually practicing your religion and not phoning it in or larping. At least OP has conviction even if it's odd.
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@BowsacNoodle @Shadowman311 Aye
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@BowsacNoodle @Witch_Hunter_Siegfired @Shadowman311 Sacrifices could be eaten, and mostly still are today. It's the norm. Depends on the God.
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@CatLord @Witch_Hunter_Siegfired @Shadowman311 So would TRÆDITIØN mandate offerings to pagan deities turn into a meal? Was it basically pagan prayer?
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Yeah, it makes a lot more sense that the food that's dying to the temple would be used to feed the people who work at the temple just as donations to churches today help pay for the pastor and the secretary and the building and so on. Sometimes fresh food is more useful than cash.
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Not just sacrifices made in a temple, any slaughtering or hunting of animals required the correct rituals. To the point where they wouldn't eat meat that had not been correctly slaughtered by a competent religious figure.
Back then most men were considered priests of one kind or another and any important (especially dangerous) tasks they undertook were performed with the proper prayers and involvement of the correct deity/s.
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Most prayer involved sacrifice, yes.
Also, it's important to remember just how religious people's lives used to be. A lot of work we'd consider secular today were ritual activities for our ancestors which had to be done in the presence of the gods. Slaughtering animals (aka animal sacrifice) was one of those activities. So were meals.
Given surviving practices from other ANE descendant cultures it's possible they viewed killing as an impure act which required divine approval to be performed safely. So was the execution of humans, such as excess POWs/criminals etc.
The kind of sacrifice which required the total destruction of the offering (holocaust) was rare in European traditions. It mostly seemed to be a semetic thing. The jews in particular had rules stating that if any part of a sacrifice was taken, the thief would become part of the sacrifice.
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@BowsacNoodle @Witch_Hunter_Siegfired @Shadowman311 I don't know enough to answer.
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@BowsacNoodle @Witch_Hunter_Siegfired @Shadowman311 I've read that the offerings, to some (European) Gods, were eaten and some weren't, and I know in the east today that the priest/monk will often eat the offering.
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